Blender Crashes when Switching to Cycles Engine
I needed to enable CUDA and use my NVIDIA GPU in the user settings.

 This is done by:


Opening user preferences under File/User Preferences
Going to the System tab
Scrolling down till you see the option entitled Compute Device
Selecting CUDA instead of None and selecting your GPU from there.


Apparently my CPU integrated is either not compatible, or the drivers are not installed correctly. Regardless, I wanted to use my more powerful GPU anyway.

Refer to this answer for a more in depth explanation on how this is done should you run into any problems.